As far as I understand they’ve done a significant amount of work related to HLS. It’s not nearly as public facing as starship but they have crossed a lot of milestones that are part of their Nasa contract. Including a lot of work on orbital refueling, the HLS landing engines, and the crew version of starship.

Of course, this shit is still multiple years away so the meme holds true.

I just like people watching, and also have pretty extreme flight anxiety and motion sickness so I may have resting bitch face while I watch you pass. I’m sure me vomiting later in the flight is more of a disturbance than my face though.

Yea I hope this spurs more investment into Chinese llm labs, or really any country doing open models (pretty much only china). The united states like normal cannot be a trusted and reliable partner. I’m also against lobotomizing llms in general In the name of “safety”.

I mean, like I said, chinese models are nearly just as capable and they will forever be substantially cheaper simply because anybody with a server can run them. So your logic just doesn’t pan out. Unless America can maintain a sufficient advantage in the technological capabilities, hopefully that doesn’t happen.

I already agreed with you that Americans will raise prices in newer models (not old ones), but it doesn’t really matter if the competition is almost as good and 100x cheaper.

I don’t think that’s the plan and it won’t work if it is, believe it or not I think these corporate soul suckers know that.

Chinese models are literally 75x cheaper than frointer usa models with 85% of the capabilities. Chinese’s models have continually been 3 - 6 months behind frointer models. This will continue to be the case and since Chinese models are generally open anyone with a big server can run them and sell tokens, it’s gonna stay cheap.

I’m pretty sure most LLM providers are making enough money to profit on selling infrence. They only are in the negative from massive spending on hiring the best talent and research/development into new models and the associated hardware/data center build outs to train those new models.

The truth in my opinion is these companies are confident that if they spend enough they will reach a critical threshold where llms are actually intelligent and useful, and that is what they are betting on. Being the first company to make real “Ai” that can self improve.

I’m sure OpenAI and Anthropic will try to charge more because they are soul sucking capitalists but that will only be viable as long as they are sufficiently in the lead from open weight models. I think Anthroptic has already 2x api pricing for their newest hype beast end of the world its so scary advanced Fable 5 model.

I was hoping the Chinese labs would go ham and just stop putting any safety guardrails at all. It’s much easier to get around them on the Chinese models, but there’s still some minimal ones baked in, sadly.

Yes well I was really just trying to be funny (poorly) I must admit, good points I’m glad you stated though.

One just has golden plates and the other doesn’t. Pretty much the same thing.

I’ve never seen this image before and it’s the first post I’ve seen on social media to actually make me laugh outloud in… A very long time lol

Do it! Post results here please lol, this sub is not very active.

Thanks! Looks like I accidentally posted twice so I’m gonna remove this one

I have the Reflex Lab light meter tapped onto my camera, I originally thought the built in metering on my F3 was off so I bought the reflex, but I actually just did a really shit job on my first roll of film. The built in meter on my F3 is actually pretty good. I use both the built in meter and the reflex to judge the ideal settings, they usually only differ by a stop.

I’ll sometimes take 2 shots with slightly different settings, not so much anymore since it feels like a waste of film (sometimes). I still get a good portion of shots back that I’m not super happy with the settings I chose, but I’m getting better and they are usually at least okay. This comparison was on the same trip as the op, and one of the two times on 5 rolls of 35mm where I took two different exposures of the same scene during this trip. I like the bright one on the right but my partner actually prefers the dark one. I think this was only a stop difference on the shutter

“Very soon” that’s what’s been said for years now. I too think this isn’t sustainable, but it sure feels like it’ll keep rolling for a number of years.

Its all I’ve shot on since I got a film camera, well I’ve tried 160 and 800 too but all Portra. Shame it’s a bit pricey.

Sometimes facts are factually facts indeed

Anti human behaviour has been the norm for governments in the west and other places for… Ever…??? I don’t ignore everything, my point was many people here ignore one side and push back only the other side.

I didn’t say “everyone lies”. No shit genocide is bad genious, my only point in that comment was that the vast majority of people on Lemmy are fine with propaganda from the West, but aren’t fine with propaganda from other countries.

Maybe that’s not you in particular, you may see and call out western propaganda too but most don’t.

Its the reason hexbear gets so much hate here, they aren’t really anyworse than other communities, the news and narrative they push just isn’t from your preferred government’s. I don’t agree with many of their opinions but it’s refreshing to see the other side.

Fair points on ml not allowing criticism, but your last point about how Western propaganda is more truthful sounds sort of like somebody who’s been drinking the propaganda, you don’t really have evidence to support that claim I think.

Oregon! Near the Rockaway Beach area.

Are you dumb? I don’t drink the propaganda, I can see and identify it from all sides most of the time. I just get annoyed with people on Lemmy pushing one side and saying the other is bad. Their both bad.